The Skin Peeler sneered, "Have you three become addicted to being dogs for others?"

"Back then, you refused to be proper ghosts and gods, insisting on being dogs for others. In the end, you almost met the fate of a rabbit being killed once the hounds are no longer needed. Now, you want to be dogs for others again. Can't you find food unless you have a leash around your necks?"

Ti Gu suppressed his anger and said, "Skin Peeler, while ghosts and gods are carefree, they inevitably become prey for others. We've been in this hunting ground for too long and we're tired. What's wrong with wanting to find someone to protect us?"

The Skin Peeler sneered again, "To put it bluntly, you're still being dogs. I am a tiger; I don't need protection. I shouldn't have come looking for you."

"Skin Peeler, aren't you being too hurtful?" The person who spoke was Mo Caiwei's master. Later, I learned that he was Li Xue, one of the Four Dead Servants.

Ti Gu stopped him and said, "Skin Peeler, everyone has their own ambitions. I can understand. For the sake of our former comradeship, leave the core secret of the living puppet, and I'll let you go. From now on, we'll keep to our own sides of the river."

"Hahaha..." The Skin Peeler suddenly laughed loudly, "You three are something else. I thought you were trapped in this village, so I came here to rescue you. But you want to use me as a certificate of loyalty? Good... very good..."

Ti Gu's voice sank slightly, "After all these years, you're still as sarcastic as ever. Your skill is the human skin technique. The living puppet is useless to you. Give it to us, and you won't lose anything. On the contrary, it will be a win-win situation. Why are you being so stubborn?"

The Skin Peeler said coldly, "What I want to give to others, they must take even if they don't want it! What I don't want to give to others, no one can take away!"

Li Xue followed up, "Don't speak so definitively, or you might end up slapping yourself in the face later."

The Skin Peeler suddenly lowered his head and said, "Boy, the inheritance of the living puppet is for you."

Before I could react, the Skin Peeler had already pointed a finger at my brow.

Ghost and God imparting a technique?

Ghost and God imparting a technique, to put it bluntly, is forcibly injecting the secret manual into the other party's mind.

Although this method is fast, it can easily shatter the brain of the recipient, causing them to die on the spot.

As soon as the Skin Peeler's finger touched my brow, blood spurted from my nostrils, and my vision went black.

"Stop!" Li Xue roared sharply, blasting towards me with his Ghost and God power.

But I heard a muffled sound—it should have been the Skin Peeler blocking the opponent's attack with his body at the last moment.

In the next instant, I felt like I was flying through the clouds, and the Skin Peeler's voice followed, "Catch them."

Who?

When I subconsciously opened my eyes, Jiu Ci and Mo Caiwei were already flying towards me from my left and right.

The Skin Peeler, taking advantage of my confusion, broke free from the Soul-Chasing Cord, threw me out of the house, and threw those two girls out with me.

With the matter at hand, I could only spread my arms and stop them in mid-air. Under the impact of the two, I fell straight down and crashed to the ground with them.

I grunted and stood up, only to find that I had been thrown into the backyard of the house.

In front were the four ghosts and gods fighting to the death.

To the left and right were crossbows ready to fire.

Behind me was a cliff protruding from the ground.

Although I had retreated from the range of the Ghost and God battle, I had fallen into a desperate situation...

"Stop him! I'll catch Li Po!" Amid Ti Gu's stern roar, his figure flashed out, as if he had moved in an instant. He suddenly appeared less than five meters away from me and reached out to grab me.

I only felt Ti Gu's palm growing larger and larger in my vision… In an instant, the overwhelming palm pressed down directly on top of my head.

"Open—" I roared angrily and pushed my palms out towards him.

"A mere nascent mortal dares to be brave. Give me your brain!" Amid Ti Gu's wild laughter, the palm transformed by the power of the Ghost and God solidified, and his five fingers hooked down towards my head.

Just as the true energy in my palm was about to touch the other's palm, two chopsticks wrapped in true energy shot out from my sleeve, striking the other's palm first.

Ti Gu's palm was intended to capture, not to kill me on the spot. Although the giant palm looked terrifying, it did not carry much divine power.

The two chopsticks were like crossbow bolts, directly hitting the ghost and god's palm, instantly piercing through the other's skin. A spiderweb-like pattern of black blood suddenly burst open in the other's palm.

"Ah—" Ti Gu retracted his palm in anger and shock. I retreated two steps, grabbed the arms of the two girls, and jumped off the cliff, "Skin Peeler, Ti Gu has been hit by my witch poison blood curse. The rest is up to you."

After my figure fell off the cliff, I said in a low voice, "Draw your knives and stab into the mountain, quickly!"

The three of us together weighed at least four hundred pounds. Even if I had reached the nascent mortal realm, it would be impossible for me to jump off a cliff of ten or twenty meters with two living people and remain unscathed, so I could only find a way to ease our momentum.

Mo Caiwei drew a knife from behind me, but Jiu Ci's palm pressed against my waist without moving—what did she want to do?